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Friday, September 18, 2009

Chocolate and Hazelnut Pie with Vanilla Cream

I hope you're ready for a treat. This pie is chocolate, rich and decadent. It's also easy to make. As with all things chocolate, the better the poison the better pie. Spring for the best chocolate you can get your hands on. If you can't get hazelnuts use toasted almonds or pecans instead. Toasting the nuts, whatever type you use, is important because it really does improve their flavor. When the pie is taken from the oven it has the crackle crust of a brownie, but it's texture is more like a cross between a chocolate mousse and a brownie. It's almost a confection. Delicious doesn't begin to describe how good this really is. The recipe was developed by Giada De Laurentis who is an admitted chocolate addict and she has taken no shortcuts here. While the pie is simple to make there is a fairly significant wait time before it can be served. By my estimate, it takes 20 minutes to make but needs 3 hours to cool and chill. I suspect you'll like this one - a lot.

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When a cake looks this great, I'm willing to wait three hours to eat it, that's for sure! I'm finding all kinds of great recipes for autumn meals. This pie one will be great for Thanksgiving. I may have to make a test pie just for my greedy self. :-)

I don't know how I could go wrong making this for the holidays. I love the taste of hazelnuts so I don't think I'll do any substituting. For some reason this just seems like the perfect autumn desert!Elaine :)

I need a good recipe for my cooking group and this is it for our October meeting. Thanks for sharing. I love all your recipes and photos. I am off to meet another blog cooking gal today for lunch. Joyce

Oh my, this looks good. And I do like many of Giada's recipes, too. Thank you for the comment on my blog. I'm finding so many great blogs through these Friday Food festivals and yours is definitely one of them!

Mary, I just love stopping over for my foodie fix! This one is a keeper but we love pecans here so I will make the switch.Love Michael Lees comment about making a test pie for the holidays, sounds good to me.~ ~Ahrisha~ ~

O, Mary girl...I always know I am going to find something so so good over in your kitchen. I swear I would weight 500 lbs if I lived next door to you cause I'd be "stopping by" every single morning!!This just sounds so good I don't know what to do.....I will try this..maybe at Thanksgiving. Ummm

Thank you for your lovely comment on my blog. I really appreciate comments like yours. Your own blog is quite informative. I love the clean layout. This pie looks absolutely delicious. I love anything chocolate and this definitely looks like something worth trying.

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